13 Jul
2005
13 Jul
'05
7:42 a.m.
yep, I tried to implement SPF a number of times in a few different mail systems from Postfix to Sendmail, and kinda had alot of hiccups, mostly around false positives or loss of email etc. I think we're going to have another look at it soon as the general level of SPAM etc seems to be growing by the day. -- Cheers Dan Juha Saarinen wrote:
Before advocating and implementing SPF, it'd be worth admins' while to read up on the problems of that technology.
Here's a workaround for forwarding using Exim for instance:
www.infradead.org/rpr.html
Reading through all of that, you have to wonder if SPF isn't creating more problems than it solves.